After all, the game's "victory" state is to sell your prison so that you can start the next one with a bigger capital investment. These companies would be considered definite "winners" in the logic of Prison Architect, which quickly strips the player of compassion and replaces it with a profit-driven mindset. The two market leaders in this regard are The GEO Group, and the Corrections Corporation of America - they posted $1.69 billion and $1.65 billion, respectively, in total revenues for 2014, of which they pocketed $471.7 million and $225 million in net operating income. This is America, and prisons are for profit: In 2010, total government spending on corrections was pegged at around $80 billion, a hefty slice of which goes to private prisons. If you're looking to build a prison dedicated to rehabilitation, go play some kind of Norwegian prison simulator. And, I suspect, that's exactly what Prison Architect, a PC strategy game from Introversion Software, wanted me to feel.
I need to be focused on selling my prison for profit, not getting bogged down in frivolous niceties. It's big business and I'm its architect, and I'm losing because I took my eye off the prize. Then it dawned on me: This isn't a resort this is a prison. I've stripped this little avatar of his dignity.
And now he has no choice but to to use an open-air toilet in the center of a holding cell because I'm too cheap to build walls around it. Look, there's Andrew Brown, in for 23 years for arson. But then I ended up blowing the upfront from my grants on all that square footage – plus, I needed guards, a warden then, when the money started to tighten, an accountant to find tax loopholes – and the next thing I knew I was in the red.
This was going to be a decent prison a social service. There was going to be a big yard, with a pool table and TVs. I was going to double the minimum size of cells. I was going to create a spacious, roomy penitentiary. I started off with altruistic intentions.
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